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Technology Stocks : Western Digital (WDC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Matt Webster who wrote (8494)	1/23/1998 2:59:00 AM
From: Thomas Haegin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11057

Prices of HDDs in Switzerland The other day I went to a computer and appliances shop around the corner from my office, buying something and asking the price of the Seagate 6.4 GB IDE drive: CHF 699.--or about $475. It's a cheap shop, but not the cheapest. The WDC 6.4 GB I saw some 10 days or so go at CHF 610.-- or about $415 in a comparably non-cheapest store. The point I make is that the WDC is considerably more cheap than the Seagate. Is this true in the U.S. also, SEG fetching premium prices? I didn't check for QNTMs price. I got the WDC 6.4 for my PC at CHF 510.-- or about $345. Anyway, the WDC 6.4 GB in my new computer is a fine piece indeed: You don't hear nothing! I unplugged the current just to hear the difference: There wasn't any really. The setting instructions for the master/slave pins are printed on the drive itself, so one doesn't need to look in the manual. Very convenient. And of course it's fast, etc. I have Win 95with FAT32 installed. I love it, the drive I mean... <g>. If sombody could please check into the latest pricees on Pricewatch. I think last time we were at $245 for the WDC 6.4 IDE. Thanks a lot. Thomas